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Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1

In this series, I will talk about how to start programming with Office 365 in shortest investment of time. I assume my audience will be .NET developers who do not have prior knowledge of Office 365......

Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2

In this series, I will talk about how to start programming with Office 365 in shortest investment of time. I assume my audience will be .NET developers who do not have prior knowledge of Office 365......

Windows Phone 7.5 Apps In Record Time

I have started writing an evolving micro eBook Windows Phone 7.5 Apps In Record Time. It was written as briefly as possible to act as a jump starter for those who have intermediate level of practical ...

Open Source in .NET | Open Day

Yesterday we arranged an awesome first of its kind event Open Source in .NET | Open Day at IDB Bhaban in Dhaka, Bangladesh with Microsoft Bangladeshs immense help. I had two sessions. One of them was ...

NoBrainer: My New Open Source project

Yesterday we had an electrifying event Open Source in .NET | Open Day in collaboration with Microsoft Bangladesh, that I have posted earlier about. In my second session I unveiled my shiny new Open So...

The Web of Pain for Those Who Did Not Adopt Cloud Yet!

No one wants downtime. In this age of Web 2.0 (or even more), the usage of internet based applications has been redefined. People tend to engage themselves in much more volume than ever before, making...

Getting to Know Windows Phone 7

I hope you already know that the long awaited Windows Phone 7 is out. This is the Microsofts latest mobile operating system everybody was waiting for. As usual this is just an OS, not a Zunephone or n...

Welcome to my new home

I have been deciding for a while to build my new home to get rid of the http://weblogs.asp.net/TanzimSaqib blog that I had. The major motivations for moving away from weblogs.asp.net was the annoying ...

Open Source Projects

Cassini 4.0 Cassini is now an open source, portable and redistributable web server. This light-weight Microsofts source available web server is used to be shipped with Visual Studio as integrated deve...

Experience

British Telecom BT is world’s one of the most renowned companies in telecommunications sector. As the Software Designer of MyOffice/Widget Framework, he has been helping British Telecom build next gen...

Technical Reviews

I work for Addison-Wesley Professional as Technical Reviewer. I reviewed and ensured technical correctness of the book, LINQ to Objects using C# 4.0. From this book, you will get: A clear explanation ...

Education

Tanzim Saqib holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering from American International University – Bangladesh. He obtained CGPA 3.69 in scale of 4.00.However, he is looking for p...

Technical Articles

Parallelizing Windows Applications in .NET 4.0 Published: May 6, 2010 Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4.0 Published: August 2009 Awarded Article of the month August 2009 in C# category by readers vo...

Public Speaking

Tanzim Saqib is a technology speaker. He spoke on C# 4.0 Demystified at Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch in Dhaka on May 8, 2010. He spoke on Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynam...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2010

I have described before in my prior post how you can run your ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2010. There is currently no support for ASP.NET MVC project types in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. S...

Running a ASP.NET MVC project on Visual Studio 2010 Beta1

You probably already know that ASP.NET MVC is not included with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 since MVC was released when Visual Studio release was being locked down. I hope it will be available from Beta2...

Building a basic Menu control for ASP.NET MVC

There are two different ways to build controls for ASP.NET MVC as of now. The most common way is by HTML Helper extension methods. You will find such methods being used in numerous places inside Views...

Balsamiq: mockup design tool for dummies like me

If you are a product officer or somehow related to software development and find it really hard to make quick wireframes of your application, look no further. Balsamiq Mockups is probably the best out...

CallQueue: Implementing a Sequential Web Service Call Queue for AJAX application

In AJAX based applications its common that user might end up breaking your AJAX calls by clicking on numerous places in very short interval of time. Let us assume there is a page where there are sever...

My eye friendly Visual Studio dark theme

I am not sure about how you guys feel about your IDE look & feel. First few years it was alright for me. However the more I used Visual Studio, the more I experienced problem with my eyes as well as m...

Client Perspective of Windows Azure Services Platform

Windows Azure was announced on PDC 2008 (Oct 27) and will hopefully be released mid next year. You probably already know about Azure by this time. If no, I would like to quote some from www.azure.com ...

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? I have recently written an article on Windows Azure which guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which ...

Building applications for Windows Azure

Windows Azure is an upcoming operating system for the cloud from Microsoft, announced on October 27 at PDC. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and man...

Fixing DevelopmentStorages database cannot be found problem on Windows Azure

This could be a common problem who are not using SQL Express. If you run an Azure application you may find it seeks for SQL Express instance in your machine if you do not have already. You may also fi...

jQuery intellisense in Visual Studio

Those who are excited like me about the news of jQuery integration into Visual Studio, started adopting jQuery replacing ASP.NET AJAX Client side API. Microsoft also declared there will be a patch for...

LINQ to Flickr

One of my colleagues Mehfuz Hossain developed a wonderful open source project which allows you to query Flickr photos by LINQ, also lets you insert, delete photos directly to/from Flickr. You wonder h...

A "transactional" generic DbHelper for LINQ to SQL

In LINQ to SQL, the data model of a relational database is mapped to an object model expressed in the programming language of the developer. When the application runs, LINQ to SQL translates into SQL ...

[New Article] 7 ways to do Performance Optimization of an ASP.NET 3.5 Web 2.0 portal

Web 2.0 applications are widely developed. These applications often work with third party contents, aggregate them, make various use of them and then make something useful and meaningful to the users....

Write your own DOM friendly extension methods for HtmlElement in Volta

I know there are GetById, GetById Some text [...]...

[New Article] ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices

While we develop AJAX applications, we often carelessly ignore giving up bad practices, which cause effects which are not so significantly visible when the site is not so large in volume. But, it’s of...

HttpRequestFactory vs. XMLHttpRequest in Volta

HttpRequestFactory was designed for use by tiersplitting internally and was not supposed to be exposed as part of the Volta API as Danny van Velzen from Microsoft Volta team told me today. So, its bet...

[New Article] Building a Volta Control : A Flickr Widget

This is my first article which is based on the first CTP of Volta considering its current limitations. You will see how you can create a Volta control that the compiler can convert into an AJAX Widget...

How to solve: Server Controls cant be accessed in Views code-behind in ASP.NET MVC

It’s still long way to go for a final release of ASP.NET MVC, the one I’ve been using right now is just a December CTP. But, like me you might be experiencing this confusing problem. The server contro...

Make web.config work in Volta

Ever wondered how to make web.config work in Volta first CTP release? Simply add a web.config file and add content to it? Unfortunately this is not the case in Volta at least in the first CTP. Five st...

Make HTML controls discoverable in Volta Control

When a Volta control is rendered, the ID attribute of the generated HTML is changed to something like _vcId_1_DivName which is inconvenient to find from code. But the ID attribute stays the same in ca...

Making cross domain AJAX call using Volta

Making a cross domain AJAX call in Volta is piece of cake. Volta compiler generates necessary client codes to make it work. Here is a snippet that can make an AJAX call to some Url and fetch data:publ...

Anonymous types: var

Anonymous types are excellent addition to .NET “Orcas” release. These are a convenient language feature that allows developers to write code without bothering about what particular type of object they...

LINQ: Iterate through collection which implements IEnumerable only

The following works fine in LINQ, because an array implements IEnumerable .string[] tokenArray = new string[2] { “Hello”, “World” };var tokens = from token in tokenList select token; fore...

SQL Server Full Text Search service running problem in Windows Vista

I use Windows Vista Business with all features turned on. When I installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, I found Full Text Search service can’t start itself. I tried running it from Management Co...

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